Our Girls are still missing since April 15, 2014. We will not forget them and will not forgive those with a defective political morality who mentally traumatise their families.

Nigerians are being turned into animals! About 50% of fuel bought at stations is used in generators at home and office, so why can government play the ostrich and have a RULE NOT TO SELL IN JERRY CANS? That will not stop jerry-can sales. Only adequate supply will kill the profiteering jerry-can smugglers trade.

Even as Internally Displaced Persons increase at the hands of the Fulani herdsmen/farmers war nationwide and the army is at last taking on the matter, there is a report that abandoned IDPs are disturbed because of the failure of the Victims Support Fund to adequately feed, clothe and shelter them. These are fellow citizens displaced and pauperised for whom a N57billion VSF was set up. Is the money finished or just vanished in corruption as usual?

In spite of the great Denmark, Finland, Sweden, New Zealand, Netherland and Norway Transparency International 2015 ranking TI 1-5/168 Top 5, every country has A PERCENTAGE OF RESIDENT IN-COUNTRY CORRUPTION, RI-CC, 1-5% up to 10% maximum to allow for sustainable development. The RI-IC MUST NEVER BE SO LARGE AS TO KILL THE COUNTRY! Nigeria, TI 136 with Camoros and Tajikistan, is unfortunate that this unwritten limitation of corruption has never been well understood by the thieves in the political, civil service and contractor classes. Compare Nigeria and Saudi Arabia, TI 48/168, both oil territories with ‘RI-CC’. We have seen news videos of Nigerian legislators and governors shouting down former Coordinating Minister Okonjo-Iwala on her establishment of a Sovereign Wealth Fund, SWF. Instead of such savings, the shouters misspent or stole the funds that should have been saved and here we are today –broke. They should note that Saudi Arabia, even with its own Resident In-Country Corruption, is planning to hike its SWF to $3 trillion to ensure that its 6-7million citizens are cushioned against economic travails in future. Signs of ‘good’ leadership which has already supplied over 200,000Mw of power some as solar power! Meanwhile, in sharp corrupt contrast, our own wealth in Nigeria, which could also have been a SWF was siphoned off in similar trillions of naira to corruptly enrich the powerful elite since before the military era to cushion them and their families for 1000 years while the rest of us are left in current darkness and fuel-lessness and joblessness.

Still on ‘10,000Mwlessness’. That promised 10,000Mw by 2019 will be the equivalent of our 2-4,000Mw today as our needs as a developing country will more than double by 2019 from increase in manufacturing, factory and family electricity needs and consumption. Nigeria must solve this powerlessness as it did with the landline telephone deficit. By jumping to the cell phone! We need this ‘JUMPING TO NEW TECHNOLOGY’ approach for electricity generation and distribution to overcome terrorism on the pipelines and repeated refinery sabotage. Nigeria needs that 10,000Mw of power now, today. By 2019 we expect 50,000Mw. What have others done? Can we copycat?

Simple, like so many countries without much sun, we can harness our magnificent sun in a SOLAR REVOLUTION’. Using 5-8 year repayment 1-2% loans direct from a $2-5billion ‘CBN SOLAR GRANT SCHEME’ we can mostly ‘get off the grid’ for most of our electricity, except the big things like air-conditioners. With BVN, Immigration Passport and FRSC Drivers Licence Records and INEC Voter’s Cards, this is easy to administer as identification of participants will not be a problem. Of course there are many living in the comfort of the 24 hour-powered National Assembly who ensure Nigerians remain trapped like millions of desperate flies on the giant nationwide spider web of the failing national electricity grid. But we have been ‘paying and praying ‘ to the corrupt grid for the past 50 years paying through our noses for little or no service to a spider-master tarantula of a federal parastatal steeped in greed leaving us in darkness.

This is supposed to be the most intelligent, least corrupt and most progressive government we have ever had at the centre. But common new refineries we refuse to build to increase fuel supply at local prices! It should creatively introduce policies to decentralise power–electrical and revenue formula – to the states, policies that go massively solar and create local jobs through local power generation even if that means coal in Enugu. Every state must accept that ‘Nigeria, Federal Failed to Fuel and Power Nigeria’. There are many Emergency Power Companies which can generate power to feed into the grid or supply state by state on a temporary one month to two years basis. All 10,000 Mw lost to the Japanese earthquake was replaced within three months by Emergency Power companies. We need those companies to bring immediate solutions and save millions of litres of diesel and the pollution from the million + generators.

Let us recall the elderly, their pension plans ruined by the budget-spending profile profligacy of the political class which has impacted so negatively on Nigeria and the citizens’ commonwealth. Fridges empty, open in the powerlessness of ’10,000Mw by 2019’, their contents smelling of power corruption and contamination in the dustbin as we are reduced to a ‘daily bread existence’. How do families survive this Triplet Disaster of ‘Powerlessness, Petrolessness, Pensionlessness and Salarylessness @2016? What about Joblessness?